{"id":119248,"date":"2022-06-26T02:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119248"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:06:53","slug":"valkyries-ballad-hour-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/valkyries-ballad-hour-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyrie&#8217;s Ballad Hour 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valkyrie\u2019s Ballade (Valkyrie)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Master, your distrust is misplaced,<br \/>\nFor you are the whole world to me,<br \/>\nTurning teacher to your student,<br \/>\nA mind shrewd and gallant to see.<br \/>\nSafe with you I lay, submissive,<br \/>\nYour feisty weapon, thanks to thee.\u2019<br \/>\nMy plan sadly remains, our end,<br \/>\nBut you are the whole world to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Now to these wolves, permit my speech,<br \/>\nAt midnight bars cease to serve, see?<br \/>\nHairy dregs wander marauding,<br \/>\nWaiting for the wolves to roam free.<br \/>\nDrunks howl at the moon, unhindered,<br \/>\nSet their undeserving soul\u2019s free.\u2019<br \/>\nSoon we fall sadly together,<br \/>\nBut you are the whole world to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Empty sheds sit behind the bar,<br \/>\nDeprived wolves in the pig pit free,<br \/>\nA drunk man is easily led,<br \/>\nProspecting a woman like me.<br \/>\nSensual and bizarre to see,<br \/>\nFalling for a woman like me.\u2019<br \/>\nI have ordered our doom\u2019s sweet drug.<br \/>\nBut you are the whole world to me.<\/p>\n<p>Escaping to capture wolf\u2019s bane,<br \/>\nPain of the nightmare soon to come,<br \/>\nYour insanity spirals free,<br \/>\nBut you are the whole world to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valkyrie\u2019s Ballade (Valkyrie) \u2018Master, your distrust is misplaced, For you are the whole world to me, Turning teacher to your student, A mind shrewd and gallant to see. Safe with you I lay, submissive, Your feisty weapon, thanks to thee.\u2019 My plan sadly remains, our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119254,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248\/revisions\/119254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}